Gabriela felt a moment of dizziness before the scenery abruptly shifted.
Before she could react, she realized she had already returned to the Demon King’s Palace.
“Qiaolin, are we back?”
“Uh… I think so.”
Gabriela lowered her eyes and saw a figure squeezed into a stone pillar in front of her.
“Huh?! You… why are you inside that?”
“Don’t ask yet, just pull me out.”
Qiaolin waved his hand toward the girl.
Seeing the man’s cheeks squished together and his mouth looking like a rabbit’s, Gabriela couldn’t help but cover her mouth and giggle.
It couldn’t be helped.
The Folding Warp spell randomly teleported the caster within the target area.
Qiaolin had been unlucky enough to teleport straight into a pillar.
Just as she was about to help him, the void beside her suddenly cracked open, and a rosy figure lunged at her.
“Huh?!”
“You’re finally back, Lina!”
“Are you… Demigura?”
The girl who had ambushed her was intimately rubbing her cheek against Gabriela’s.
In the entire Demon Race, there was no one else besides the Crimson Empress herself, Demigura, who would do such a thing.
“What’s this? You’ve only been gone for a few months and you’re already so distant?”
The girl with long, rose-red hair crossed her arms with some dissatisfaction.
She glanced at Qiaolin, who was embedded in the stone pillar.
The man narrowed his eyes, looking at the red-haired girl with a fair, delicate face and a dark gown.
Even after three hundred years, she was still the Vampire Empress from Qiaolin’s memories — noble, elegant, and fond of looking down on others.
To be honest, Qiaolin had quite liked her at first.
In his original world, he was a monster girl enthusiast.
Naturally, Vampires and Succubi were right up his alley.
Moreover, Demigura’s appearance and attire were exactly like the traditional Gothic vampires of his memories, except her hair wasn’t silver…
He just hadn’t expected that this girl would be completely uninterested in men, making her an impossible character to win over.
The moment their eyes met, Demigura’s dark red, diamond-shaped pupils slightly constricted.
“Where did this ugly man come from?”
The girl’s lips curled in disdain, her tone cold enough to freeze water.
She turned her gaze back to Gabriela, her expression instantly becoming tender and sweet.
“Is this a new pet or slave you picked up outside, Lina?”
“No… no, he’s Qiaolin!”
“That Celestial Hero? You actually brought him back?”
Demigura stared at Qiaolin’s face stuck in the pillar with a look of astonishment.
“Hi… long time no see, dear Lady Vampire Empress?”
A flicker of disgust appeared in Demigura’s eyes.
She pinched her nose, reached out, and yanked Qiaolin from the stone pillar before throwing him away like a piece of trash.
“Crash!”
“Hey! Don’t be so rough!”
Gabriela tried to stop her, but Demigura didn’t seem to be listening.
The girl walked directly to Gabriela and cupped her cheeks.
“Sigh… looking at you now, you’ve definitely thinned out during the time you spent away from the Demon King’s Castle. It’s rough out there, and the Magic Power is so thin. You must be starving, Lina.”
“Well… a little. Wait, let’s not talk about that for now, okay? Mmph — “
Demigura’s slender fingers covered Gabriela’s lips, her dark red, diamond-shaped pupils flashing with an excited light.
“How about tasting my Magic Power? You can’t refuse this time!”
“Stop it, Demigura.”
Ignoring Gabriela’s resistance, the Vampire girl prepared to offer her red lips.
“Thud!”
However, a palm separated them at that moment.
Demigura ended up kissing the back of Qiaolin’s hand instead.
“What?!”
“My, my. I’ve heard that the final step of a certain oath in the Vampire race involves kissing the back of a hand. Lady Empress, I really can’t accept such an honor.”
Seeing Demigura recoil as if she had been electrocuted, Qiaolin chuckled triumphantly.
“You, you, you… Qiaolin, you bastard!”
The girl pointed at the man, her face flushed with shame as she cursed him.
“Oh? You recognize me now?”
“Alright, alright. It wasn’t easy to find Qiaolin and convince him to come back and help me. You were being too reckless just now,” Gabriela said softly.
She was clearly criticizing Demigura, but what annoyed Demigura even more was that Gabriela was siding with Qiaolin!
“Hmph, I won’t lower myself to your level!”
Demigura turned her face away huffily.
“So, speaking of which, you arrived really fast. We just got here and you already showed up?”
“Qiaolin laughed.”
“Of course. After all, I left my Exclusive Mark on Lina. As long as she’s within a certain range, I can sense her presence.”
Demigura’s eyes were cunning and her tone was intoxicated, as if she were showing off.
“You…”
Gabriela sighed helplessly.
She was already long accustomed to Demigura’s constant fussing over her.
‘A mark, huh? Let me see…’
Qiaolin leaned in close to Gabriela, searching all over her.
He lifted her skirt, pulled at her belt, and even sniffed her shoes…
Finally, he found a small red crescent moon next to her neck.
“I see. You’ve had your blood sucked by her. She calls it an Exclusive Mark, but it’s really just a prey marker. The next time she wants to take your blood or Magic Power, she won’t even need to be near you to feed. She can take it from a distance.”
Upon hearing this, Gabriela instinctively covered her neck.
“Demigura!”
She was angry.
As the Demon King of Gluttony, her Magic Power, which was filled with the traits of gluttony, was often in a state of hunger.
If Demigura took her power, she would certainly lose control of herself due to extreme hunger, which would create a safety hazard.
“Don’t be angry, Lina! I won’t drain your strength. I… I’ll even take the initiative to give my Magic Power to you!”
The Vampire Empress, who had been full of arrogance and contempt moments ago, now looked so flustered that Qiaolin couldn’t help but feel satisfied.
“Fine, he would stop teasing them.”
“It’s alright, Gabriela. I’m here now.”
Qiaolin’s words immediately put Gabriela’s mind at ease.
“Mm, that’s true.”
The Demon King’s anger vanished instantly, leaving Demigura stunned.
“Yesterday we were sharing a bed and the same blanket, but today my Lina has been snatched away… I didn’t think three hundred years of friendship would lose to this ugly man.”
“Uh, actually, Gabriela slept with me yesterday.”
Qiaolin wanted to add fuel to the fire, but even Gabriela couldn’t stand it.
She poked him hard.
No matter what, the other woman had come specifically to welcome them back; he should show some restraint.
“Waaaah — can you just shut up!”
After seeing the Crimson Empress, Qiaolin roughly understood that she had been the one assisting Gabriela in her position as Demon King all these years.
After all, as one of the former Four Heavenly Kings, she possessed the natural talent to be a leader…
She was just easily swayed by her emotions.
It was the same with her current strength.
Qiaolin remembered her being at the early stage of the King Rank when they first met.
After several hundred years, even if she hadn’t broken through to the Saint Rank, she should have reached the peak long ago.
Mid-stage King Rank.
It was a bit weaker than Qiaolin had expected.